‘The Boys in the Bunkhouse’ is a gentle though ultimately damning exposé.
William Bole
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Failure to Communicate
John Thavis offers a highly readable glimpse into the power structure of the Vatican.
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The Peace Front: Religious groups stake out a wider role in violent conflicts.
Religious groups stake out a wider role in violent conflicts.
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An Illusory Peace: Why even Obama cannot bring an end to the culture wars
Why even Obama cannot bring an end to the culture wars
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American and Catholic: David O’Brien, Catholic historian and social analyst, retires.
A few clicks into a Google search of “Professor David J. O’Brien,” someone not entirely in the know could wonder just how many contemporary American intellectuals there are by that name, surfacing in venues within and beyond the academic world. There is David J. O’Brien the C
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A Tangled Web
In the debate over poverty in the United States there are just two ideas or at least it often seems that way One is that people are poor because of the system and that any real solutions will have to come from forces outside the individual namely government That is the view from the doctrinaire
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Forgiveness: A Radical New Factor
A few years ago, a gutsy doctor named Susan Black strode into the merciless mess of Kosovo. She went there as a volunteer expert to help expand medical services in refugee camps, assisted by her trusty translator, Faza, an ethnic Albanian. After traveling with Faza for six weeks, 12 hours a day, she
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Taking Stock
Back in the boom days of the very near past there was much talk of how stock ownership in the United States had been democratizedwith a stock in every pot There is no doubt that in the 1990 rsquo s many families like my own were suddenly mindful of the market having sunk savings for college or